Pedigree Anonymity

[Deer Thistle]

I really hope this isn't permanent, you can't go from giving a community a lot of information (IE: having a chance at knowing who actually bred the kitty in question, now every breeder is just anonymous no matter what, even if they're the owner which places doubt) to giving them less, usually it's the other way around; upgrading a community from giving them less information to more, I feel like we're going a tad backwards even though this concept is really, really neat.

I wouldn't have a problem with this had we not been given the pedigree transparency previously - now it seems like no matter if the breeder/owner are the same, you still can't see the breeder's name, I think this is more hindering than beneficial given our history of being able to look at the pedigree in such a transparent manner before these 48 hours. I also take pride in knowing I have a cat from X line bred out by the hard work of other awesome breeder who deserves some recognition for their efforts in the pedigree and now I can neither see that nor commend it, so here's to hoping this isn't permanent!

All in all, I do appreciate the differentiation between "Owner" and "Breeder" - it's a great concept - though but I wish both the owner and breeder could both be known (or have the option of being known), I think the breeder deserves more recognition than anyone as we've come to know that certain combination of traits stemmed from one breeder's project, and in my opinion that's so cool that they have such an impact in this community!

And if there are parties who do prefer this anonymity, perhaps there can be an option to mask their names as the "Breeder" if wanting to make both parties happy? The breeders who do wish to have their names in the pedigree can keep them there, and those who wish to not be known can have the "Someone Else" if they so desire. I think everyone should have a choice as to whether they want to be known in the pedigree or not, and having options that cater to everyone's perspective is always a plus.

I'm just going to take a Zelda: Majora's Mask (best game of all time) approach to this and say:

(Glad it isn't 60 hours remaining! LOL I just hope at the end of the 48 hours we can have the transparency of seeing both the breeder and owner, or have the option of doing so)

I do like the idea of knowing who the "Breeder" and "Owner" are though, this idea is wonderful in concept. I just wish we were transparent about both - in my opinion, the more transparency, the better!


* Edited my post very, very heavily after examining the temporary pedigree setup further! I didn't fully understand the pedigree changes before this edit and posted based off of that, oops!

(02-04-2013 09:03 PM)KittyCats Resident Wrote:  If you change pedigreeview.php to pedigreeview2.php in the url you can still see the version with owner names.

Thanks for letting us know! I also think there's an issue with the pedigree page - I was glancing at my older pedigrees and noticed that even if the breeder and the owner should be the same, it shows the breeder of the cat as "Someone Else" when I know that same individual bred that cat. Is that working as intended? Just making sure I understand this temporary setup!